Eudora Welty

by McHaney, Pearl Amelia

• ISBN13: 9781892514165
• ISBN10: 1892514168
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Hill Street Pr

Summary

Simply put, Eudora Welty is the greatest living writer of southern fiction. On the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, many of the most important southern writers have come together to offer original essays as their deeply-personal tributes to her influence on them.

Table of Contents

Preface Why These Invitations?	i
Pearl Amelia McHaney
I Charm	1	(4)
Richard Bausch
II Tough as Fire	5	(6)
Doris Betts
III First Encounters	11	(4)
Fred Chappell
IV On the Occasion of Eudora Welty's Ninetieth Birthday	15	(4)
Ellen Douglas
V Out of the Wilderness	19	(4)
Tony Earley
VI Head Stung, Heart Stung	23	(6)
Clyde Edgerton
VII Miss Eudora When Last Seen	29	(8)
George Garrett
VIII A Piece of News	37	(4)
Ellen Gilchrist
IX One of Them Was Dreaming	41	(10)
Anthony Grooms
X For Ms. Welty at Ninety	51	(4)
Barry Hannah
XI The Essential Clue and Connection	55	(4)
Mary Hood
XII Why Welty Matters	59	(8)
Greg Johnson
XIII Eudora Dear	67	(4)
William Maxwell
XIV Paradise Road	71	(2)
Willie Morris
XV Golden Apples	73	(4)
Alice Munro
XVI On My First Becoming Acquainted with Eudora Welty and Her Work	77	(8)
Daniele Pitavy-Souques
XVII Finding Eudora	85	(4)
Reynolds Price
XVIII Things from Out in the World	89	(4)
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
XIX Marble Cake	93	(6)
Lee Smith
XX The Listener	99	(8)
William Jay Smith
XXI For the Ninetieth	107	(4)
Elizabeth Spencer
XXII Clerihews	111	(4)
Richard Wilbur
Contributors	115